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An 'Othello' Sociological Analysis

In this instance, racism is a problem, and it is today. Yet, in looking back through history, one sees that racism was much more p...

Uncanniness in The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

interpretations. It is, first and foremost, a Gothic novel, which sets the tone for the supernatural aspect of this uncanny work....

'Sonnet 75' from Amoretti by Edmund Spencer

original, so much so, that he invented his own rhyming scheme, hence this sonnet is typical of the "Spencerian" form. It is one of...

Article Overview of 'Bully, Bully: Do gossip and rumors count as punishable behavior?' by John Leo

reference to a particular study, the reader gets a sense of where the article will go. That is, Leo does not agree with the report...

White Noise by Don DeLillo

electrifying success. The chancellor went on to serve as adviser to Nixon, Ford and Carter before his death on a ski lift in Aust...

Literary Techniques in Dickinson's 'A Narrow Fellow in the Grass'

This paper examines Dickinson's 'A Narrow Fellow in the Grass,' and examines the author's use of visual, auditory, visceral, and p...

Anatomy of an Illness by Norman Cousins

This paper discusses the author's ankylosing spondylitis and how he managed his own course of treatment in 6 pages. There is 1 so...

Kurt Lohbeck's Holy War, Unholy Victory Eyewitness To The CIA's Secret War In Afghanistan

In seven pages this paper reviews Lohbeck's text in an emphasis upon the roles of Islam and the CIA in the author's Afghan reality...

Analyzing Bleak House by Charles Dickens

society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...

Class in America by Paul Fussell

In nine pages this essay considers the author's primary points made in this 1983 text and disputes his position regarding the cult...

Edward Stanley Miller's War Plan Orange The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945

This text is critiqued in five pages with the author's categorizations a main focus. There are no other sources listed....

The Tradition of Heroes in Literature

This paper discusses the elements necessary to creating a heroic character in literature. The author examines heroic protagonists...

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Compared

of epic romance between two people from vastly different worlds. When prospective tenant Mr. Lockwood arrives at the Thrushcross ...

'The Starry Night' by Anne Sexton

The author's use of imagery in the poem is the focus of this paper consisting of five pages. There are no other sources listed....

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift and Shock, Satire, and Irony

In five pages this paper examines the author's masterful uses of irony, satire, and shock in his criticism of British greed and Ir...

Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders and Identity

realize from that gain in herself. Moll is cautious, and definitely "aware of the market." As each time she is forced to re-evalu...

Imagery in Ulysses by James Joyce

Conmees thoughts. There are no quotation marks, and only rarely does Joyce direct the reader with a phrase such as "he thought," r...

La Religieuse by Denis Diderot

She pressed me in one place and then another. In a soft and low voice, she asked me to increase my efforts, and I did so." Again ...

Asceticism According to Matthew Arnold and Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold and On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich ...

Symbolism and Realism in Il Conformista by Alberto Moravia

In five pages this paper assesses the author's contention that symbolism and realism are both featured in Il Conformista. There a...

The War Against Boys How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men by Christina Hoff Sommers

In five pages this report considers Sommers' 2000 text and the assertion that in contemporary America boys are having a more diffi...

Different Narrative Voices in Henry James' The Turn of the Screw and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

This paper contrasts and compares how the author's narrative voices are used in each of these novels in 7 pages. Two sources are ...

Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and Events That Are Life Changing

In five pages Frank McCourt's memoir is examined in a consideration of several of the author's life changing experiences. There a...

David Stoll's Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans

In five pages this paper analyzes Stoll's text in terms of the author's point of view and the debates that continue to linger rega...

Poetic Analysis of 'When Black Men's Teeth Speak Out' by Ouologuem Yambo

In five pages the literary aspects of subject, form, image, interpretation, symbolism, and rhythm are analyzed in terms of how the...

'Mariners and Machines' by Lance Buhl Reviewed

In five pages the author's views regarding technology changes and social stratification are critically analyzed. There are no oth...

Why We Were in Vietnam by Norman Podhoretz

In five pages this text and the author's intentions are discussed. There are no other sources listed....

'Lady with a Lapdog' by Anton Chekov

himself." Images The title that Chekov has chosen for this story is particularly poignant. He did not choose the Lady with the W...

Emilio Zamora, Cynthia Orozco and Rodolfo Rocha's Mexican Americans in Texas History

their respective fields of historical inquiry. The fact that each essay was written by academic experts is no coincidence. The a...

The Use of Figurative Language in Plath, Keats, and Layton

her own, and ultimately committed suicide in 1963, one year after completing "Lady Lazarus;" Keats was noted for his romantic natu...